Our Impact: Services
Although the Clearinghouse is pursuing initiatives on several fronts, the thread that binds them is simple: learners are at the core of every service that we offer and every innovation that we develop. Our efforts to support the education and workforce communities with data, insights, and services will ultimately improve access to opportunity and promote learners’ credential completion and career success.
From high school to college and into careers, our dedication to supporting learners throughout their education and workforce journeys with data, related services, and insights is unwavering.
Learn more about how the Clearinghouse serves the K-20 to workforce continuum.
Although the Clearinghouse is pursuing initiatives on several fronts, the thread that binds them is simple: learners are at the core of every service that we offer and every innovation that we develop. Our efforts to support the education and workforce communities with data, insights, and services will ultimately improve access to opportunity and promote learners’ credential completion and career success.
From high school to college and into careers, our dedication to supporting learners throughout their education and workforce journeys with data, related services, and insights is unwavering.
Learn more about how the Clearinghouse serves the K-20 to workforce continuum.
Enrollment Reporting
Increasing transparency
In August 2021, the Clearinghouse unveiled our new data reporting dashboard, a single landing page for schools that presents all compliance-related enrollment reporting action items in one place. Among the dashboard’s notable features:
- All to-do items have quick links in the dashboard, so that school officials can address the item right away.
- Deadlines for every action item appear on the dashboard, so that schools know what is due when.
Validating data accuracy
Our Enrollment Reporting team also implemented bulk edit capabilities for two common errors and warnings, enabling schools to save time by correcting errors in bulk, rather than one by one. For example, school information systems sometimes update program begin dates each semester, rather than keeping the originally reported program begin date. The new functionality we implemented simplifies how schools correct these errors thereby reducing the burden on our institutions.
Streamlining the data intake process for schools
We are working to provide a simpler user interface that offers more transparency into the school’s data and easier accessibility for updating student records. Rather than requiring schools to address errors and warnings one by one or navigate through multiple screens to find previously reported information, our user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) improvements will:
- Consolidate the student campus and program information into one view, so schools can see the full record at the same time, including all errors and warnings
- Include additional mass correction options for errors and warnings, enabling schools to update all instances of a discrepancy simultaneously, when possible
Add preferred or lived name fields, giving schools ultimate flexibility and discretion in the use of a student’s preferred name
Enrollment Reporting
Increasing transparency
In August 2021, the Clearinghouse unveiled our new data reporting dashboard, a single landing page for schools that presents all compliance-related enrollment reporting action items in one place. Among the dashboard’s notable features:
- All to-do items have quick links in the dashboard, so that school officials can address the item right away.
- Deadlines for every action item appear on the dashboard, so that schools know what is due when.
Validating data accuracy
Our Enrollment Reporting team also implemented bulk edit capabilities for two common errors and warnings, enabling schools to save time by correcting errors in bulk, rather than one by one. For example, school information systems sometimes update program begin dates each semester, rather than keeping the originally reported program begin date. The new functionality we implemented simplifies how schools correct these errors thereby reducing the burden on our institutions.
Streamlining the data intake process for schools
We are working to provide a simpler user interface that offers more transparency into the school’s data and easier accessibility for updating student records. Rather than requiring schools to address errors and warnings one by one or navigate through multiple screens to find previously reported information, our user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) improvements will:
- Consolidate the student campus and program information into one view, so schools can see the full record at the same time, including all errors and warnings
- Include additional mass correction options for errors and warnings, enabling schools to update all instances of a discrepancy simultaneously, when possible
Add preferred or lived name fields, giving schools ultimate flexibility and discretion in the use of a student’s preferred name
DiplomaVerify + DegreeVerify 2.0
The Clearinghouse invested in significant expansions of our next-generation verification services, DiplomaVerify and DegreeVerify.
High School DiplomaVerify
Today, 1,500 schools across 43 states use DiplomaVerify, our free, best-in-class high school diploma verification service. DiplomaVerify provides instantaneous verification that frees up school administrators’ time and enables students to qualify for jobs and other opportunities faster.
DegreeVerify 2.0
With increased operational efficiencies, updated secure integration performance, and a new-and-improved website, DegreeVerify 2.0 reduces the administrative burden for schools, streamlines background screening processes, and benefits learners with fast, accurate, and secure academic verification.
DiplomaVerify + DegreeVerify 2.0
The Clearinghouse invested in significant expansions of our next-generation verification services, DiplomaVerify and DegreeVerify.
High School DiplomaVerify
Today, 1,500 schools across 43 states use DiplomaVerify, our free, best-in-class high school diploma verification service. DiplomaVerify provides instantaneous verification that frees up school administrators’ time and enables students to qualify for jobs and other opportunities faster.
DegreeVerify 2.0
With increased operational efficiencies, updated secure integration performance, and a new-and-improved website, DegreeVerify 2.0 reduces the administrative burden for schools, streamlines background screening processes, and benefits learners with fast, accurate, and secure academic verification.
Learner Solutions
Myhub
Myhub is a mobile-friendly platform that brings together a student’s comprehensive education achievement record in a single place. Myhub enables students to view all of their enrollment records and academic verifications, order transcripts from any school they’ve attended, print enrollment certificates, and more, 24 hours a day.
Transcript Services Third-Party Ordering (TPO)
We expanded our popular Transcript Services to include a suite of modern third-party ordering (TPO) services that substantially cut the time it takes for learner transcripts to get where they need to go. Through TPO, registrar offices, admissions offices, and educational organizations can order transcripts on behalf of learners, who have provided their signed consent, eliminating the need for learners to place the order. Our automated process securely delivers electronic transcripts to their destinations in less than 20 minutes, as opposed to the days or weeks that it often used to take. TPO has especially been a game changer for admissions offices that can now make decisions within hours (or even minutes!) after an application is received.
Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)
Institutions participating in PDP can now tell a more compelling and verifiable story about their students’ progress and outcomes with the Student Insights Dashboard. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Greater Texas Foundation has allowed us to improve the PDP customer experience with rebuilt dashboards, additional benchmarking capabilities, and easier data submission processes.
The first-ever national PDP Insights report, from our Research Center, provided insights on students’ first year credit completion ratio and credit accumulation rate.
Learner Solutions
Myhub
Myhub is a mobile-friendly platform that brings together a student’s comprehensive education achievement record in a single place. Myhub enables students to view all of their enrollment records and academic verifications, order transcripts from any school they’ve attended, print enrollment certificates, and more, 24 hours a day.
Transcript Services Third-Party Ordering (TPO)
We expanded our popular Transcript Services to include a suite of modern third-party ordering (TPO) services that substantially cut the time it takes for learner transcripts to get where they need to go. Through TPO, registrar offices, admissions offices, and educational organizations can order transcripts on behalf of learners, who have provided their signed consent, eliminating the need for learners to place the order. Our automated process securely delivers electronic transcripts to their destinations in less than 20 minutes, as opposed to the days or weeks that it often used to take. TPO has especially been a game changer for admissions offices that can now make decisions within hours (or even minutes!) after an application is received.
Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP)
The first-ever national PDP Insights report, from our Research Center, provided insights on students’ first year credit completion ratio and credit accumulation rate.
Industry Credentials
Groundbreaking manufacturing industry credential study
Through the Clearinghouse’s service offering to industry certification issuers, we match enrollment and degree information with industry credential earners’ data, as well as aggregately match employment and wage data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Our first major analysis linking these educational attainments and labor market outcomes was in the manufacturing industry. The U.S. Census Bureau published a paper of our landmark pilot research study through our partnership with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)/Manufacturing Institute. The initiative examined the impact of industry-certified manufacturing credentials on wages and employment in the manufacturing sector. We found that manufacturing workers who earn an industry credential on average earn $2,000 more annually and are more likely to be employed than those who did not earn a credential.
Our goal is that this type of connection between industry credential attainment, and its long-term effect on wages and earning potential, will be one that we can replicate across many industry sectors in the near future.
Workcred ECMC Grant
In February 2022, the National Student Clearinghouse, Workcred, and the League for Innovation in the Community College announced plans to offer our community colleges an affordable, scalable approach to align degrees with industry needs. To accomplish the project objectives, the three entities are also partnering with the Higher Learning Commission to consider how certification+degree (C+D) pathways to completion and attainment will be determined within the context of the accreditation process. The ECMC Foundation-supported partnership — and its focus on C+D pathways — will support the development of alternative pathways within the workforce by embedding industry-recognized certifications into community college coursework. Ultimately, the collaboration will provide learners with opportunities to master relevant occupational skills that lead to living-wage jobs while they are on a pathway to an associate degree.
Workcred is already partnering with the National Student Clearinghouse to collaborate with more than 30 certification bodies to link certification data safely and securely with higher education enrollment and degree data and wage and employment data.
Industry Credentials
Groundbreaking manufacturing industry credential study
Through the Clearinghouse’s service offering to industry certification issuers, we match enrollment and degree information with industry credential earners’ data, as well as aggregately match employment and wage data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Our first major analysis linking these educational attainments and labor market outcomes was in the manufacturing industry. The U.S. Census Bureau published a paper of our landmark pilot research study through our partnership with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)/Manufacturing Institute. The initiative examined the impact of industry-certified manufacturing credentials on wages and employment in the manufacturing sector. We found that manufacturing workers who earn an industry credential on average earn $2,000 more annually and are more likely to be employed than those who did not earn a credential.
Our goal is that this type of connection between industry credential attainment, and its long-term effect on wages and earning potential, will be one that we can replicate across many industry sectors in the near future.
Workcred ECMC Grant
In February 2022, the National Student Clearinghouse, Workcred, and the League for Innovation in the Community College announced plans to offer our community colleges an affordable, scalable approach to align degrees with industry needs. To accomplish the project objectives, the three entities are also partnering with the Higher Learning Commission to consider how certification+degree (C+D) pathways to completion and attainment will be determined within the context of the accreditation process. The ECMC Foundation-supported partnership — and its focus on C+D pathways — will support the development of alternative pathways within the workforce by embedding industry-recognized certifications into community college coursework. Ultimately, the collaboration will provide learners with opportunities to master relevant occupational skills that lead to living-wage jobs while they are on a pathway to an associate degree.
Workcred is already partnering with the National Student Clearinghouse to collaborate with more than 30 certification bodies to link certification data safely and securely with higher education enrollment and degree data and wage and employment data.
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Together, we can continue to enable learner success
For nearly three decades, the Clearinghouse has worked in partnership with educational institutions and organizations nationwide that have provided the collaboration and support to help us grow our service mission and help your grantees fulfill their education-related goals.
The Clearinghouse’s high-impact initiatives can maximize the philanthropic yield of your organization’s investments and contribute to the collective impact that the Clearinghouse, along with its grantees and partners, has on learners’ lives nationwide.
Because we make it easier and simpler for thousands of colleges, universities, high schools, and educational organizations to better serve their learners, the Clearinghouse can — through our services — enable your organization to amplify your impact across the education and workforce communities and, most importantly, on the lives of millions of learners.
Find out how the Clearinghouse can partner with and enable your organization to make a difference in the lives of learners who will shape our world tomorrow.
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